In one of the most unforgiving environments on Earth ... blooming event is happening. This phenomenon, sometimes called a “desert bloom,” is filling sections of the Atacama with bright flowers.

Photographer: Paul Williams ‘this might be enough’ he said ‘to trigger an extremely rare event’ The first shoot for The Green Planet ... rare desert event. A wild flower bloom.

Some deserts are among the planet's last remaining areas of total wilderness. Yet more than one billion people, one-sixth of the Earth's population ... Desert plants may have to go without ...

So began the first water cycle…And it rained so much that two thirds of our planet was ... And the plants colonized the surface of the Earth. Even in the driest deserts, they still carry a ...

Journey to Earth's greatest wildernesses - deserts and grasslands ... grassland by spreading seeds of plants that increase fertility of the land. The Planet Earth III crew successfully captured ...

In the center of the image, a gigantic bloom of photosynthetic algae ... He also writes Live Science's weekly Earth from space series. More about planet earth Earthquakes at massive Alaska ...